So I signed up for the Xbox 360 voice thing and checked it for the first time today. I was shocked to see the following from last weekend:
She played Lost Odyssey picking up 4 achievements, and then the lightweight went to bed. Freakin’ wuss.
I guess playing for 23 fucking hours straight is not hardcore enough or something.
(this post is meant to be tongue in cheek, I’m not really upset over anything other than not being able to play Lost Odyssey again since last weekend)
Posted by alice at 7:30 pm
Truthfully, I do not have any good ideas. Or well to be even more clear, I barely have ideas at all let alone good ones. Nevermind that I work for a company that is trying to bill itself as an idea company and we are constantly poked and prodded for the “next big bet”. When confronted with the idea of “think big or go home” (on a quarterly basis) the thought of going home is my first inclination.
Despite all that, I feel a strong desire to create something large, useful and in collaboration with others. A major hindrance to that being the only thing I consider myself talented in (and then only marginally) is writing software, and lately my spare time has been spent trying to not use a computer. Truthfully, writing code is probably the only thing I am good at and I have lost pretty much any passion I had for the act in the last few years (which bodes well for when I’m laid off for not having new ideas).
So what am I supposed to create? When I attended the Independent Games Festival in 2007, the panelists all talked about using creativity and innovation as if it were an SDK available from Microsoft or part of OpenGL. But where do ideas come from in the first place? I guess I should take more showers or something which seems perverse and often baffling.
Truthfully, beginning sentences with the word “truthfully” three times in one entry is probably too much.
Posted by alice at 5:12 am